Scissors.



No. 664,6!3. Patented Dec. 25, I900.

.1. BADGER. SGISSOBS.

(Application filad.Aug. 25, 1900.) (No Model.)

7 I WITNESSES: IN VENTOI? Jmazaarz Z462 8) W A 7T0fiNEY8 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN BADGER, OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

SCISSORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,613, dated December25, 1900.

Application filed August 25, 1900. Serial No. 27,985. (No model.)

fl'o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN BADGER, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inScissors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The purpose of the invention is to connect the shanks of scissor orshear blades by a spring which will act as a handle and normally holdthe blades apart or in a position to receive an object, the blades beingquickly brought into cutting action by pressing the end portions of thespring toward one another.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

. in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding partsin both figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a pair of scissors having the improvementapplied, the blades being is open position; and Fig. 2 is a plan view ofa pair of scissors with ,the improvement applied, the blades of thescissors being shown closed.

A and A represent the blades of a pair of scissors or shears which arepivotally connected in the usual manner, and the said blades areprovided with the customary shanks B and B, which heretofore havebeenprovided with loops to receive the fingers and thumb of a hand. In theimproved construction, however, the said loops or eyes are omitted, andinstead of them sleeves 10 and 11, forming sockets, are rigidly securedto the rear ends of the shanks B and B, and the ends of a coil-spring Oare secured in these sleeves or sockets in any approved manner. Thiscoil-spring may be of any suitable gage of Wire and may be as long asnecessary and constitute the handle of the scissors or shears. When thespring-handle is secured to the shanks of the scissor-blades, saidspring is bowed, and the tendency of the end portions of the spring isto move outward or away from each other. Consequently when the scissors,provided with the improved handle, are not in use the blades will beheld apart at their points. When the scissors are to be brought intoaction, it is simply necessary to press the end portions of thespring-handle together or in direction of each other, whereupon theblades will close in the manner usual to scissors and shears.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent A cutting instrument, having pivotallyconnectedblades, and a bowed spiral sprin the ends of which spring are connectedwith the blades and constitute a handle for the instrument.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JONATHAN BAD GER.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. AcKER, J NO. M. BITTER.

